Hair-crimper



(No Model.)

J. D. WOODBURY.

HAIR :0,RIMPE11.

N0. 283,183. Patented Allg. 14, 1883.

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JOSEPH 1).'WooDBUEY, or srEiNeEiELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAIR-CRIMPER.

SIECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 283,183, dated August 14, 1883.

Application tiled April 1o, less. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J osErH D. WoonBURv, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hair-Grimpers, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction of hair-crimpers; and it consists in making a crimper in a form generally like that of a common hair-pin, but having a more or less force against one of the legsof the crimper, said three legs being bent from a continuous piece of wire, the object beingto pror vide a crimper of this description'having the requisite three legs, but made solely from a single piece of wire, Awhereby greater elasticity is obtained, and its cost is materially reduced.

y In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure I `is a side view of ahaircrimper constructed according to my inven` tion and showing the spring-leg in the rear.

` y Fig. II is an edge view, and Fig. III is a view `2 5 of the reverse side of Fig.` I. Fig. IVillustrates theinanner of` winding the hair upon the crimper and securing one end'thereof under said spring-leg.`

I construct my improved hair-crimper from Wire having therequisite elasticity, bending said Wire at the upper end of leg c to the curved form shown, and thence carrying the wire downward opposite to said leg, but to a point above the lower endof the latter, and,

bending it upon itself atsaid point, the wire is carriedback to `the curved head of the crimper, Athereby forming the leg c, consisting ent No. 255,101, of March 2l, 1882;V but of a double line of wire. One of said lines of wire forming the leg c having been carried to said head of the crimper, it is there bent at x over said head and closely set uponthe latter, and from thence the line of wireis carried down by the side of said leg c and made to `form the leg b opposite to lega. Y By closely setting the wire over the head of the crimper at x the leg b4 and the spring-leg c are caused to press against each other, and some little force is required to separate one from the other. 1 In Fig. IV the cord erepresents, by the manf ner it is placed on the crimper, the manner of winding and securing the hair thereon. The hair is wound from the head of the crimper downward toward the ends of the legs b c, inclosing with the latter the spring-leg c, and the ends of the hair represented by the end c of said cord are drawn between the end of leg c and the leg b, and thus Well secured to4 the crimper. The inclination of the legs b and c to spring apart causes suitable tension to be given to the hair which is Wound aropnd them.

.I do npt' "claim, broadly, as my invention a hair-crimper having three legs, as a similar construction is shown in the UnitedStates Pat- What I claim as my invention is- The within-described improved hair-crimper, consisting ofthe legs a and b, of single wire,

from a single piece of wire, bent as set forth. l JOSEPH D. .WOODBURY Witnesses:

R. F.HYDE,

H. A.- CHAPIN.

and the doubled wire leg c, constructed solely l 

